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CHICAGO - Chicago police shot and wounded a man who reportedly brandished kitchen knives at officers in the Cragin neighborhood, officials said this morning. The shooting happened at about 9:45 p.m. Sunday in the 2900 block of West Lotus Avenue, police said. There were conflicting reports that said the shooting happened in the 3000 block of West Lotus. Officers were called ...

HOWARD COUNTY, MD - The man who police said robbed a Howard County gas station took pains to cover his face, but maybe he should put the same thought into his shirt. He was captured in a surveillance photo wearing a police explorer's shirt. Here is a statement from police: Howard County police are asking the public’s help to identify a ...

BROOKLYN - A Brooklyn man beat his teen stepdaughter to death with a boot on the front porch of their home Thursday - then was busted after he flipped his getaway car in Queens, cops and family said. Jean Simon, 54, chased 18-year-old Lakeshia Seymour onto the second-floor porch of their Canarsie home after an argument erupted inside, grabbed a boot ...

NEW YORK - A reputed Bloods member was shot to death by an undercover cop Thursday when a drug sting in the Bronx led to a life-or-death gun fight, police said. Nelson (Boss) Reeves, 17, had arranged to sell the undercover cop $20 of crack at an apartment building in Crotona around 11:20 a.m., police said. But once they got inside ...

BETHESDA, MD. — A parent's worst nightmare -- a woman carjacked with her and her toddler still inside. Maryland State Police said a man forced his way into an occupied vehicle on Edmondson Avenue Wednesday night and sped off, with the terrified woman holding her 20-month-old child. The man sped south on I-95 and sideswiped a state trooper, triggering a chase ...

MADISON, Ind.— An 80-year-old southern Indiana man charged with murder for allegedly shooting his daughter's boyfriend told police he didn't approve of their relationship. WAVE-TV of Louisville, Ky., reports that Boyd D. Wright Jr. of Madison was arrested for murder Tuesday night. He was being held Wednesday at the Jefferson County Jail, pending an initial hearing. Madison police responding to a ...

KEENE, NH - A 23-year-old man wanted in connection with a New York triple homicide, who police said held his girlfriend and 4-month-old son against their will during a three-state chase, surrendered late yesterday evening to New Hampshire authorities without a fight after being tracked to a Gilsum, N.H., home. Matthew Slocum was taken into custody by New Hampshire police authorities ...

BROOKLYN - The body parts of an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who vanished while walking home alone from camp were found Wednesday in a refrigerator of a man being questioned in his disappearance, police sources said. The ghoulish discovery of Leiby Kletzky early Wednesday morning capped a frantic two-day search for the child. The Hasidic child's apparent body parts - including his ...

ORANGE COUNTY, CA - A woman was in custody Tuesday for allegedly poisoning her estranged husband, cutting off his penis with a 10-inch kitchen knife and throwing it in the garbage disposal. Lt. Jeff Nightengale said the crime occurred Monday night at the man's Garden Grove home. According to authorities, this was the first time police have ever been called to ...

UPDATE: Baltimore police have named a potential suspect in the abduction of 8-year-old Darrick Brown, who was taken from a Southwest Baltimore street Monday evening. Authorities said they are searching for Raheem Taylor, 21. The child remains missing. [photo:607754] No other details have been released, including whether the suspect knows the child. In a statement this morning, authorities said:, The above ...

BOTHELL, WA - A man has died after he was shot by a Snohomish County Sheriff's deputy during an incident Sunday in a Bothell-area neighborhood, officials said. Sgt. Robert Goetz of the Everett Police said the shooting happened inside a home in the 2000 block of 187th Place Southeast in unincorporated Bothell at about 12:20 p.m. He said the incident unfolded ...

Bengals cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones was arrested Sunday in Cincinnati on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct while intoxicated and resisting arrest, adding to a list of off-the-field troubles that have hindered his career. Jones, 27, was jailed around 3 a.m. and released later in the morning. Media outlets reported documents filed in court accuse Jones of being disorderly and shouting profanities ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A 34-year-old ex-con whose criminal past barred him from owning firearms used a stolen .40-caliber handgun to kill seven people and wound two others before taking his own life, a Grand Rapids police official said. Investigators are trying to figure out what motivated Rodrick Dantzler to kill two former girlfriends, his 12-year-old daughter and four others related ...

BROOKLYN - An off-duty cop shot a man who allegedly grabbed another officer's gun and opened fire Thursday during a fight over a woman outside a Brooklyn bar, authorities said. Witnesses said the argument broke out [gate] around 4 a.m. inside the Old Gallery bar in Kensington, and later moved outside after one of the cops inexplicably called Pablo Negron a ...

PENNSYLVANIA - The national wildfire known as "Caylee's Law" has come to Pennsylvania and New Jersey. [gate] Legislators in both states are drafting proposed laws - in response to public uproar over the verdict in the Casey Anthony trial - that would oblige parents and guardians to promptly report the death or disappearance of a child. The overnight push for new ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - A pleasant Thursday afternoon turned deadly in Grand Rapids when a gunman killed seven people before fleeing through the city, taking three people hostage in a home for hours, then fatally shooting himself. Around 11 p.m., the hostages were free after the suspect, 34-year-old Rodrick Shonte Dantzler, shot himself in the head, Police Chief Kevin Belk said. ...

SEATTLE - More than 50 years had passed since she’d seen the clean-cut teenager, but Kathy Chapman still recognized him when a detective dropped his photo in front of her. He was the young man she’d last seen talking with her best friend, Maria Ridulph, just before the 7-year-old Sycamore girl vanished from their neighborhood on Dec. 3, 1957, Chapman recalled ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - Apparently enraged by a potential breakup with a Fort Lauderdale multimillionaire, Catherine Marie Pileggi took deadly revenge, investigators say. Pileggi, a onetime pilot, also blamed him for the death of her sister years earlier, police said. Pileggi is accused of shooting Ronald C. Vinci in the head, stabbing him in the chest, slitting his throat, wrapping him ...

FORT HOOD, TX - The Army said Wednesday that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, accused of killing 13 people in a rampage on Fort Hood in 2009, will face the death penalty. Lt. Gen. Donald Campbell Jr., the post's commander, ordered a capital murder trial after reviewing recommendations from an Army colonel who presided over a hearing last year. Campbell's action sets ...

DIAMOND BAR, Calif.—Three former elementary school PTA members were arrested and charged Tuesday with running an alleged Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 40 people out of millions of dollars, Los Angeles County authorities said. Maricela Barajas, 41, and Juliana Menefee, 50, were arrested at their Diamond Bar homes after prosecutors filed 22 felony charges, including grand theft and securities fraud, ...